{"id":43819,"date":"2026-04-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43819"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:26:52","slug":"conrails-final-days-as-a-class-1-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrails-final-days-as-a-class-1-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail’s Final Days as a Class 1 Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I remember the final days of March 1976, when, my father brought me\u2014 at age 9\u2014trackside for a couple of days to witness northeastern railroading before Conrail absorbed operation of most of the large railroads in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-three years later, he and I spent two days along Conrail\u2019s former New York Central lines in eastern New York state , documenting the railroad\u2019s final days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with a Canon EOS borrowed from the manufacturer for review, I exposed this telephoto view of westward TrailVan train TV79 on the Water Level Route near Tribes Hill, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canon EOS with 100-400mm zoom, Fujichrome slide film. Exposed near Tribes Hill, New York on May 29, 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Looks Back on Conrail!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working with a Canon EOS borrowed from the manufacturer for review, I exposed this telephoto view of westward TrailVan train TV79 on the Waterlevel Route near Tribes Hill, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5128,5900],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Conrail_TV79_Tribes_Hill_NY_May29_1999\u00a9BrianSolomon_120171.jpg?fit=2048%2C1381","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-boL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43944,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43819\/revisions\/43944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}